Robin
@robin-editedit.bsky.social
Senior Editor at JHU Press
Writelikeanexpert.com
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So, honest question, what do you do if you see a group of masked, unidentified men restraining someone and forcing them into a vehicle?
Seems like we should AT LEAST be calling the police, who should detain the masked men until they can verify their identities and authority.
Seems like we should AT LEAST be calling the police, who should detain the masked men until they can verify their identities and authority.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So, honest question, what do you do if you see a group of masked, unidentified men restraining someone and forcing them into a vehicle?
Seems like we should AT LEAST be calling the police, who should detain the masked men until they can verify their identities and authority.
Seems like we should AT LEAST be calling the police, who should detain the masked men until they can verify their identities and authority.
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We tell our students looking for jobs to have their elevator pitch at the ready. But we need to emphasize it needs to be about “why it matters.” That’s how you hook people. Many people frame their pitch abt what they’ve done bc “why it matters” is obvious to them, but it won’t be obvious to others
October 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We tell our students looking for jobs to have their elevator pitch at the ready. But we need to emphasize it needs to be about “why it matters.” That’s how you hook people. Many people frame their pitch abt what they’ve done bc “why it matters” is obvious to them, but it won’t be obvious to others
This is so interesting — the New York tenements have always fascinated me and I love the story about how they influenced building codes. @troytassier.bsky.social has told me about this before. Can’t wait to read this article.
The 19th century NYC tenement acts made the city safer from infectious disease. Areas w/ older non-compliant tenements had the most infectious disease deaths per capita. Areas w/ newer tenements were some of the safest in the city despite having most pop density. 1/2
www.peacham.co/journal/the-...
www.peacham.co/journal/the-...
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is so interesting — the New York tenements have always fascinated me and I love the story about how they influenced building codes. @troytassier.bsky.social has told me about this before. Can’t wait to read this article.
So first of all, this is BAD.
Second, is it still a “deportation” if it’s a US citizen?
Second, is it still a “deportation” if it’s a US citizen?
June 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So first of all, this is BAD.
Second, is it still a “deportation” if it’s a US citizen?
Second, is it still a “deportation” if it’s a US citizen?
Nobody wanting to listen to you is not the same as nobody letting you speak.
“Bhattacharya later testified before Congress that it – and he – immediately became targets of suppression and censorship by those leading scientific agencies.”
This line in CNN’s piece on the Bethesda Declaration is really inexcusable. Bhattacharya was never censored. He took case to SCOTUS & lost
This line in CNN’s piece on the Bethesda Declaration is really inexcusable. Bhattacharya was never censored. He took case to SCOTUS & lost
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
www.cnn.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nobody wanting to listen to you is not the same as nobody letting you speak.
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Good job, #RussellVought, #ElonMusk, #RFKJr and #JayBhattacharya: "Even using the lower value in calculations, the lost health from the NIH cuts translates into more than $8.2 trillion ($100 000 × 82 million years)." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Good job, #RussellVought, #ElonMusk, #RFKJr and #JayBhattacharya: "Even using the lower value in calculations, the lost health from the NIH cuts translates into more than $8.2 trillion ($100 000 × 82 million years)." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Literally not a single congressional district, not a f-ing one, wants Medicaid cut. Not even close! Yet they did it anyway.
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
May 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Literally not a single congressional district, not a f-ing one, wants Medicaid cut. Not even close! Yet they did it anyway.
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
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The GOP knew cutting Medicaid was unpopular. In Nov elections they promised not to cut it. They promised again in Jan. When that $800 billion cut showed up in Feb and Mar, one by one they promised it wasn’t Medicaid. They all vowed to never touch it. And, of course, they lied every time.
Literally not a single congressional district, not a f-ing one, wants Medicaid cut. Not even close! Yet they did it anyway.
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The GOP knew cutting Medicaid was unpopular. In Nov elections they promised not to cut it. They promised again in Jan. When that $800 billion cut showed up in Feb and Mar, one by one they promised it wasn’t Medicaid. They all vowed to never touch it. And, of course, they lied every time.
This is bleak af.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is bleak af.
The thing about Springsteen is that he can do this all day.
captain america is standing in front of a building and says i can do this all day .
ALT: captain america is standing in front of a building and says i can do this all day .
media.tenor.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The thing about Springsteen is that he can do this all day.
Impeach for each impeachable offense, or get out of the way.
I’d like to see the people who represent me actively represent me.
I’d like to see the people who represent me actively represent me.
May 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Impeach for each impeachable offense, or get out of the way.
I’d like to see the people who represent me actively represent me.
I’d like to see the people who represent me actively represent me.
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 9% of voters support cuts to the home care that Medicaid covers.
May 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 9% of voters support cuts to the home care that Medicaid covers.
This sounds like a cartoon I watched as a kid.
Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.
May 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This sounds like a cartoon I watched as a kid.
Holy smokes
“A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at U Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown in lab that it can reverse #autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 #diabetes— without shutting down the rest of the immune system. pme.uchicago.edu/news/inverse...
“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases
Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers led by Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell showed that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune reaction associated with multiple sclerosis in a laboratory setting.
pme.uchicago.edu
May 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Holy smokes
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So many layers of corruption.
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So many layers of corruption.
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CBO analysis estimates 8.6 million people will lose health insurance from the republican budget plan released last night. $715 billion cut from Medicaid and the ACA.
It’s a death sentence for some.
It’s a death sentence for some.
A new study looked at what happened when Medicaid was expanded as part of the ACA. People didn’t die. If Republicans cut Medicaid in the next budget, as they almost certainly will, they are issuing probabilistic death sentences.
Lacking Health Insurance is a (Probabilistic) Death Sentence - Literally.
What happens when people lose Medicaid?
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May 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
CBO analysis estimates 8.6 million people will lose health insurance from the republican budget plan released last night. $715 billion cut from Medicaid and the ACA.
It’s a death sentence for some.
It’s a death sentence for some.
If someone says there are Nazis around and you say “hey stop picking on me” you’re kind of telling on yourself.
Stephen Miller is so horny for using the Insurrection Act against his fellow Americans that he’s accusing Pikachu of being a terrorist
May 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If someone says there are Nazis around and you say “hey stop picking on me” you’re kind of telling on yourself.
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You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
May 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do.
They arrested and disappeared him.
They arrested and disappeared him.
Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do.
They arrested and disappeared him.
They arrested and disappeared him.
Columbia, home of one of the country’s most prestigious journalism schools, suspends student journalists for doing journalism.
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Columbia, home of one of the country’s most prestigious journalism schools, suspends student journalists for doing journalism.
Wow
“Since World War II, ‘government R&D investments are pretty consistently driving about 20 to 25 percent of all U.S. private-sector productivity growth.’”
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Wow
Can’t wait to hear her position on unprotected sex.
“When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Picks a ‘MAHA’ Movement Leader for Surgeon General
The president said he would nominate Dr. Casey Means, a California doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next surgeon general.
www.wsj.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Can’t wait to hear her position on unprotected sex.
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported